EMPTY SET. THAT’s WHAT WE ARE AS HUMAN BEINGS WHEN MISSUSE the power of ourwords.When we lie; When we manipulate; When we MixVIEWS WITHTRUTH; FACTS with inferences. We are “an empty set” Andwe can liveand reproduceandthat the emptycontinue and that’s sad. Andsaddest thing iswhen noone notices.But the realtragedy iswhen we dowe realize thatWE are empty set.Transformation is possible….

Let me share a take-away from the paper “The power of words” by Fernando Flores

Fernando Flores was Chile’s minister of finance — and, later, a political prisoner. Now he teaches companies how to use assessments and commitments to transform the way they do business. The outcome: executives who speak and act with intention

Talk all you want to, Flores says, but if you want to act powerfully, you need to master “speech acts”: language rituals that build trust between colleagues and customers, word practices that open your eyes to new possibilities. Speech acts are powerful because most of the actions that people engage in – in business, in marriage, in parenting – are carried out through conversation. But most people speak without intention; they simply say whatever comes to mind. Speak with intention, and your actions take on new purpose. Speak with power, and you act with power.

….”If you believe in this plan, why don’t you close?” Flores asks. ” every day – saying one thing, meaning another. Ryan is bullshitting his colleagues None of your talk indicates action – just desire.” Flores has put his finger on the disconnect: Ryan has gone to enormous pains to develop a plan that doesn’t excite him. Even as he presents it, he is backing away from it. He is doing what people do in organizations. The tragedy – and the waste – is not that his colleagues don’t realize it but rather that Ryan himself doesn’t realize it.

For all of us celebrate diversity is an opportunity to celebrate who we are. Each of us is unique. And to get access to that greatness we need to become aware of our blindness and get out of own ways of thinking. Because we will not be fully who “we” are until we open and accept and embrace to who WE are.